Fic rec: Narnia/ Torchwood crossover

Thanks to parrot_knight, I've just read an excellent Narnia-Torchwood crossover, Threads that are golden don't break easily by paperclipbitch. This is one of the great things about fandom, because this is not a concept I would ever have thought could work, and yet it does (despite a few surface liberties with the timelines and the probable location of the Pevensies' schools). Spoilers for all the Narnia books, film! Susan, and the most ingenious and satisfying take on the problem of Susan I've ever seen. Also, Captain Jack.

“I told you not to turn that tree into a piece of furniture,” Harkness snaps. “Oh, nothing will happen, you said. The last time you went to Narnia you nearly caused all of Cardiff to fall into a crack between the dimensions.”

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Dear Ex-flatmate,

you've done a lovely job cleaning the flat, and I appreciate the thought of putting the teatowels and so on in the wash, but even if you didn't have time to unload the washer, given that (a) you knew I was away and (b) you hadn't told me you'd done any washing and (c) you'd unplugged the washer when it finished, it would have been an excellent idea to have at least opened the drum, because after 72 hours sitting there stewing, it just needs washed again, only hotter....

Also, that bathmat was mine, damn it!


ETA: also, the German tax system is making me cry. How do I get a tax number? Do they have an equivalent of the PAYE system? Why do they make it so difficult to find out how to pay tax on money for a spot of freelancing when you won't be a resident by the time you get paid? And why is it so impossible to find out who the correct person to call is?

And why do I keep having to stop myself from writing cracky Narnia fic about Caspian's attempts to write science fiction when I have so much more important things to do?

Narnia fic: Fly me to the moon

I did, indeed, write the Caspian-writes-science-fiction fic (though thanks to Edmund's canonical enthusiasm for detective fiction, Raymond Chandler ended up being an influence). It ended up being rather more serious than I intended, though in a wry sort of way.

Title: Fly me to the Moon
Author: tree_and_leaf
Fandom: Narnia (bookverse, but not actually incompatible with the movies)
Spoilers: Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Set post VODT; (also, if you've read The Magician's Nephew, you'll see that Caspian has an overly optimistic view of a certain character from Narnia's past)
Ratings/ warnings: PG; may be triggering for people who are afraid of astrophysics, cockroaches, nuclear war or trying to construct proper plots.
Characters: Caspian, Ramandu's daughter and, in flashback, Edmund, Eustace and Lucy.
Words: 2473
Summary: In which Caspian attempts to become Narnia's first author of hard-boiled detective fiction and science fiction (at the same time), and broods.
Disclaimer: I think it's moderately obvious that I'm not C.S. Lewis. Contains reference to Raymond Chandler (who would have recognised Caspian's strategy for moving the plot on). The science fiction element probably owes something very, very vague to Out of the Silent Planet.

( What he had really wanted to know was the little details. Lots of little details, and the others hadn’t thought to tell him any of that. So he’d resorted to making them up. )

The commentary meme

I finally did the commentary for Tell Beauty How She Blastethm otherwise known as the Wimsey AU of Doom...

It's ( Below the cut )